Zhang Zixuan

Li Tianming did not know that, besides the green-robed youth and the Blue-tailed Poison Scorpion before him, there was actually a middle-aged couple atop a towering ancient tree nearby.

The middle-aged couple wore luxurious brocade robes. The miasma of Fire Sash Mountain could not come anywhere near them. Their auras were heavy, and invisible fields surrounded them. At a glance, they were top-tier beastmasters, and they had clearly held high positions for many years, possessing the power to command the common people.

"This youth is not from Thunder Lord Manor. Why has he come so deep into Fire Sash Mountain?" The middle-aged man frowned, his gaze cold.

"Perhaps he is a nearby resident who came up the mountain to gather herbs," the woman said.

"If he is not from Thunder Lord Manor, we can simply kill him and save ourselves the trouble of having him in the way." The man was about to act.

"There is no need. His lifebound beast is tiny, and his strength is ordinary. Let Xuan'er handle him. If Xuan'er encounters an outsider, he will dispose of him," the woman said.

Though her son had already grown up, time had left no trace on her. She looked barely over twenty, and her voluptuous, alluring figure possessed an even more captivating charm.

As they spoke, Li Tianming had also just gotten a clear look at the green-robed youth. He had not expected such a stranger to appear this deep within Fire Sash Mountain. This youth was clearly not from Lihuo City.

"What has been going on lately? Why does it feel like there are geniuses everywhere?" If this green-robed youth were placed in Lihuo City, he would at least be on Li Zifeng's level.

Naturally, he had no reason to make an enemy of the other party. But the Clear Spirit Grass he wanted to pick was beneath the youth's feet. With one step, two stalks had fallen, their medicinal potency beginning to dissipate. The sight made Li Tianming's heart ache terribly.

These were life-saving herbs for his mother.

"You are not from Thunder Lord Manor, yet you dare barge this deep into Fire Sash Mountain. Are you not afraid of death?" A cold gleam shot from the green-robed youth's eyes as he looked arrogantly at Li Tianming.

"Thunder Lord Manor? Of course I am not from Thunder Lord Manor." Li Tianming froze for a moment. What did this man mean by bringing up Thunder Lord Manor the moment they met?

He studied the man and asked, "What do you mean by that? Are you from Thunder Lord Manor? Are only people from Thunder Lord Manor allowed to come to Fire Sash Mountain?"

Thunder Lord Manor mainly had lightning-type lifebound beasts. This green-robed youth's lifebound beast was poison-type, so it was unlikely that he belonged to Thunder Lord Manor.

"The fact that I asked you means that I am from Thunder Lord Manor. I cannot be bothered to say more to you. Let me warn you: Thunder Lord Manor is conducting business in Fire Sash Mountain. Get the hell out of Fire Sash Mountain immediately. Hesitate for ten breaths, and this place will become your burial ground."

The green-robed youth was arrogant and domineering. In that regard, he truly fit the temperament of Thunder Lord Manor's geniuses. They were all cut from the same cloth, including Liu Qianyang.

"Leave Fire Sash Mountain? No problem. I was already planning to leave. But I would like to pick a few stalks of Clear Spirit Grass first to treat my mother's illness. I would trouble you, brother, to give me a little time."

After spending so much effort finding the Clear Spirit Grass, only for it to be beneath the other party's feet, Li Tianming did not want a conflict just yet even if the other party was from Thunder Lord Manor. Otherwise, in a fit of rage, the man might destroy the Clear Spirit Grass.

"Clear Spirit Grass?" The green-robed youth lowered his head. Only then did he notice the spiritual herb with crimson Heavenly Patterns beneath his feet.

"Yes. I will leave after picking a few stalks," Li Tianming said.

"Oh." The green-robed youth nodded.

Just when Li Tianming thought he would step aside, he never expected the youth to suddenly lift his foot and crush every stalk of Clear Spirit Grass beneath it. As he trampled them, he smiled at Li Tianming and said, "I told you to get lost, yet you have so much nonsense to say. You even called me 'brother.' Who the hell do you think you are, trying to call me brother?"

Li Tianming actually had a pretty good temper. Usually, if others did not provoke him, he would not provoke them.

But the other party only needed to lift his foot and move away. It was effortless, and he had no need for the Clear Spirit Grass at all, yet he deliberately stomped it to death right in front of him. Such vile provocation and contempt were utterly unbearable!

More importantly, these were life-saving herbs for Wei Jing!

Li Tianming had already spoken to him pleasantly to obtain them. After all, the green-robed youth was from Thunder Lord Manor. Under normal circumstances, Li Tianming would never have given him a pleasant look.

Now, as he watched all the Clear Spirit Grass get trampled to death while the green-robed youth looked at him smugly...

"Fuck your ancestors!"

Li Tianming cursed. At some point, the Bloodfire Dagger had appeared in his right palm. As his left Dark Arm clenched into a fist, its surging power nearly shattered the white cloth wrapped around it.

"This beast is fucking trash!" Little Yellow Chick was even less able to tolerate it than Li Tianming. With an even fiercer temper, it flew straight off the top of Li Tianming's head.

The green-robed youth probably never imagined that someone who should have been trembling in fear upon learning his identity would actually dare attack him first.

"Kill them."

His gaze remained contemptuous as he commanded his lifebound beast to intercept Li Tianming and the others, his eyes filled with mockery.

"If you want someone to blame, blame yourself for coming into Fire Sash Mountain at the wrong time. What if you got the divine source? Wouldn't that be a huge loss for us?"

After all, he could not be sure whether obtaining a divine source depended on strength or luck. What if Li Tianming's luck was sky-high?

He spoke quietly, so naturally Li Tianming did not hear him.

Though the Blue-tailed Poison Scorpion was enormous, it was actually extremely fast. Its pair of pincers and blue poisonous tail were both like top-tier Beast Weapons. In battle, they moved like phantoms, swift as lightning. More importantly, they carried deadly poison.

Bang!

When Li Tianming's Dark Arm collided in a punch with the Blue-tailed Poison Scorpion's pincer, he judged from the force that this youth and the scorpion should be at the Seventh Layer of Beast Pulse Realm. But because the lifebound beast was poison-type, Li Zifeng definitely would not have been a match for this opponent. Yet Li Tianming now might be different!

Moreover, the green-robed youth was not acting yet. This two-against-one chance was an excellent opportunity for Li Tianming.

"Together!"

He and Little Yellow Chick were connected in heart and mind, their coordination in battle crystal clear.

Blood Soul Kill!

This Transcendent Beast-level Battle Art erupted from Li Tianming and Little Yellow Chick at the same time. Li Tianming used a Martial Art, while Little Yellow Chick used a Beast Art, yet all roads led to the same destination.

Blood Soul Kill combined movement techniques with methods of slaughter, with the movement technique being especially crucial. In a flash, Li Tianming passed like a streak of blood. The killing intent flickered, and he was already before the Blue-tailed Poison Scorpion!

Yet Little Yellow Chick used Blood Soul Kill even better. It could fly to begin with, and when it unleashed the movement technique in flight, its movements became even more unpredictable. Its tiny body made it all the harder to track.

And this little bastard specifically sought weaknesses. The Blue-tailed Poison Scorpion's eyes were its greatest weakness!

Most fatal of all, the Blue-tailed Poison Scorpion did not take Little Yellow Chick seriously at all. It focused only on Li Tianming. Li Tianming was fast, but it was no slower. At that critical instant, just as Li Tianming appeared, its enormous pincer clamped down on him!

Hit!

The green-robed youth smiled. Li Tianming's left arm had been caught by the Blue-tailed Poison Scorpion's pincer. It would soon snap into two pieces.

Crack!

A crisp sound rang out next!

The sound was so piercing that the green-robed youth thought it was the sound of Li Tianming's arm bones breaking. But when he saw what had truly happened, his entire body fell completely still.

Li Tianming's arm had not broken. What had cracked was the Blue-tailed Poison Scorpion's pincer!

The scene was simply unimaginable!

"You idiot, how could you possibly know how hard the hand Li Tianming stuck into his crotch is!" Little Yellow Chick laughed.

This arm was Li Tianming's greatest mystery apart from his Primordial Chaos Giant Beast lifebound beast. He had tested it himself with blades, spears, swords, and halberds. It had not budged in the slightest.

He was not even sure what secret power still lay hidden within this arm. After all, it was very likely the Dark Giant Hand that had pursued Little Yellow Chick!

As the Blue-tailed Poison Scorpion was distracted by Li Tianming's Dark Arm, the Bloodfire Dagger in Li Tianming's right hand stabbed directly into the scorpion's eye in the next instant. With a wet squelch, green blood splattered out!

At the same time, Little Yellow Chick's sharp beak pierced the Blue-tailed Poison Scorpion's other eye as well.

"Congratulations, you have obtained a lifebound beast with double blindness." Little Yellow Chick flew up and smugly looked at the green-robed youth. This finally felt satisfying.

After suffering such grievous injuries, the Blue-tailed Poison Scorpion was already rolling on the ground and shrieking. Even if the other side possessed miraculous pills, its eyes might never see light again.

It was not that Li Tianming and the others were too ruthless. On one hand, he truly hated people from Thunder Lord Manor. On the other hand, this green-robed youth truly deserved a beating.

Putting on such a badass act meant he was asking to be beaten!

"You will not be keeping that leg either." That bastard had stomped all the perfectly good Clear Spirit Grass to death. The moment Li Tianming dealt with the Blue-tailed Poison Scorpion, he locked onto the green-robed youth and charged forward together with Little Yellow Chick.

"You are dead!" The green-robed youth's eyes had turned bloodshot, and he immediately fell into a furious rage. Several silver needles appeared in his hand.

These silver needles were extraordinary. One glance showed that they were top-tier Beast Weapons, forged from precious Spirit Ore.

They should be Heart-Piercing Needles.

Blue liquid coated the silver needles, likely deadly poison as well.

Whoosh!

The silver needles shot out in an instant, flying toward Li Tianming and Little Yellow Chick.

Honestly, if he had fought Li Tianming and the others seriously from the beginning, he would not have ended up in such a passive position. But regret came too late now. Showing off always came at a price.

Dodge!

A battle art like Blood Soul Kill actually countered opponents like the green-robed youth, because the finest movement techniques made it easiest to evade an enemy's attacks. Once the Heart-Piercing Needles were dodged, the green-robed youth was exposed to Li Tianming's assault.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

In the blink of an eye, Li Tianming and Little Yellow Chick surrounded the youth. Left fist and right blade moved with the fury of thunder. The Eternal Purgatory Beast Origin within him erupted, and with Little Yellow Chick's assistance, he directly suppressed his opponent. One punch landed on the green-robed youth's lower abdomen and sent him flying.

The youth spat out a mouthful of old blood, spraying his own face. When he hit the ground, he could only tremble and struggle to crawl back up.

"I never thought you had such skill. But you are dead. I will carve the flesh off your body slice by slice. No matter who you are, you will die for an entire day!" His gaze was so venomous it seemed blood might drip from it.

"Damn, you can barely crawl on the ground, and you are still talking such big words?" Li Tianming landed and looked at the green-robed youth mockingly. Honestly, beating him up still hurt, because the Clear Spirit Grass was gone.

"Hehe." In the instant the youth sneered, Li Tianming suddenly sensed a lethal threat!

"Do not kill him. Just restrain him. I will kill him myself. I am not looking for the divine source today anymore. I will torture him for an entire day!" The green-robed youth struggled to his feet, his face twisted with savagery.

As he spoke, Li Tianming abruptly saw that a woman had appeared beside the youth.

The woman's face was ashen. She looked painfully at the green-robed youth, then at Li Tianming. Her eyes were already thick with murderous intent.

Not only her. When Li Tianming turned around, a middle-aged man was beside the Blue-tailed Poison Scorpion, applying medicine to its eyes.

That was likely a top-tier spiritual medicine, capable of repairing the pierced eyes to some extent. As for whether they could recover, Li Tianming had no idea.

The gazes of these two elders upon Li Tianming had essentially pronounced his death sentence.

"Fuck." Li Tianming froze. He had never expected that the other party would be strolling around Fire Sash Mountain with his parents in tow.

This was poisonous!

"Now you know what fear is, right?" The green-robed youth grinned viciously. He held a short blade in his hand, its edge sharp, then said to the woman beside him, "Mother, just make it so he cannot move. I will handle the rest myself."

"Growth does require some setbacks. Let out this anger, but do not be so careless in the future." The woman lovingly stroked the green-robed youth's head.

"I understand, Mother. I will never again capsize in a gutter." The green-robed youth locked onto Li Tianming. Next, he would bleed him dry, blade stroke by blade stroke.

"Brother, do not be like this. What you are doing is bloody violence. It does not align with the values of our Vermilion Bird Kingdom..." Li Tianming said.

This was reality. So what if you could defeat the other party? His parents were right beside him, and they could kill you whenever they pleased.

The woman drew a green iron chain from somewhere. Yingguang shimmered across the chain, and Heavenly Patterns could be seen upon it.

This was absolutely a supreme Beast Weapon. Catching Li Tianming with it would be as easy as catching a chick, leaving him completely unable to move.

At the same time, the green-robed youth also walked toward Li Tianming.

"When night falls, carrying a body full of shredded flesh, you will probably meet the King of Hell. When you see him, tell him that the one who killed you is named Zhang Zixuan."

"Zhang Zixuan? That name is everywhere these days. How is it any different from Zhang Chunxia back then?"